Blueprint Medea review – Euripides explodes in modern London

Finborough theatre, London
Julia Pascal’s dynamic production sees Medea reborn as a former fighter against Isis who finds Jason in the British capitalEuripides’ Medea is not just a bloodthirsty barbarian princess fuelled by preternatural powers and “black hatred” to take revenge on a husband who spurns her. She is also an Asian woman and foreigner who makes huge sacrifices for Jason only to find herself alone in the hostile west.In Julia Pascal’s modern reconception